On 21 March 2017 at 15:10, Joel Cunningham <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On Mar 21, 2017, at 6:30 AM, Dirk Ziegelmeier <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> The problem is that you have two hosts with the same name "BGW" (=
> "BGW.local" MDNS name) in the same network. They should have different
> names.
>
>
>
> Is this a known limitation of LwIP’s mDNS implementation?  I haven’t done
> an audit, but from my experience with mDNS, the “Probing” step of claiming
> records should ensure the hostname is unique. See https://tools.ietf.org/
> html/rfc6762#section-8
>
> I've worked with Apple’s mDNSResponder and if two devices have the same
> hostname, the one that detects the collision ends up adding “(2)" the
> hostname to make it unique.
>

Yes, a standards-compliant responder should solve this. I wrote the code,
and did not get far enough before the project needing it got shelved and I
switched to other things.
I have since left that company so anyone who wants to improve the code is
very welcome, I can help if there are any questions.

/Erik
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